A selection of short films from all over the world which were part of this year's Short Film Competition at Abertoir 2023. These films represent all sorts of fantastic genres, from horror to sci-fi to thriller to fantasy.

After an unbearably creepy negotiation with some skeevy car dudes, a mechanic has to fight off a demonic monster inhabiting her dream 1978 Camaro.

Ride Baby Ride

A freakish, throbbing growth torments Ash. She is stuck caring for her vitriolic, dementia-ridden mother. With every indignity, Ash’s lump grows, until it erupts, spewing a mysterious substance. Will Ash figure out what it is and how to stop it?

Spoor

A wounded astronaut awakens in the upper atmosphere after a catastrophic event. He struggles to remember how he got there and latches himself on to the only familiar thing – his own severed arm.

Still Up There

When a workaholic city police officer and her laid-back partner try to stop a dishevelled girl staggering down the middle of a country road, they discover she’s being stalked by some unseen entity with a horrifying ultimatum: you stop moving, you die.

Stop Dead

A wounded warrior returns to their village but is hunted by a pack of dogs. After a desperate pursuit, they confront their past to find peace in their future.

The Hounds of Annwn

An Iranian boy befriends an old Japanese woman at a graveyard in Tokyo.

English

The Old Young Crow

He's in the house. He knows they are too. So they have to get out. Now. A mother wakes her daughter to tell her, urgently: he's in the house. They have to get out, and fast. But no sooner has she spoken than they hear him on the stairs. So they hide. And to hide, they must split up. And to survive, one may have to abandon the other…

To The Marrow

Todd is different, and the other students realise it. After a confrontation with some bullies, the headmaster finds a disturbing book in his locker, and discovers that the help the boy needs may require an unacceptable sacrifice.

Toad Boy

A Black family tries to defend their land against invaders but gets caught between a mischievous witch and a tortured spirit eager for revenge.

Valley of Souls

After a dragon destroys young Georgia's home, she journeys to its lair to enact violent revenge but instead finds an innocent child in the cave. When the dragon then returns, Georgia must reckon with the price of vengeance.

Villain

When Peter, an anxious arcade owner, is prescribed an app rather than sleeping pills, he reluctantly tries it out. However, far from bringing rest, Erebus’s soporific voice takes Peter into a waking nightmare from which he may never escape.

Geronimo

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Jersey

Guernsey

Isle of Man

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